Day one Pixel 2 and 2 XL preorders doubled first-gen Pixels

Pichai used Alphabet's latest earnings call to talk about Pixel 2 preorder performance and the company's recent deal with HTC.

Alphabet held its latest earnings call on October 26, and during this, it was revealed that the company saw a revenue increase of 24% when looking at its year-over-year earnings. This was already impressive enough on its own, but when talking about Google's hardware performance, CEO Sundar Pichai also announced that Pixel 2 preorders on day one were more than double the amount the company saw last year with the first-generation Pixel.

This is a huge milestone for Google, especially considering that this is only the company's second time at truly creating and launching its own phone. Last year's Pixel created for a bit of uproar for diehard Android fans between the axing of the Nexus brand and dated design, but display issues aside, Google appears to have made a much more positive impact on consumers this time around.

Also during the earning's call, Pichai says:

To get these devices in people's hands, we are also focused on scaling our go-to-market strategy. We are investing more in marketing, we are launching in more countries, and we are offering these devices in more retailers and we are already seeing results.

The Pixel 2 and 2 XL are still two of the best Android phones you can currently buy, and when you combine them with the likes of the Google Home Mini, Home Max, and Pixelbook, it becomes very clear that Google is serious about being as powerful of a hardware company as it can be. This year certainly seems to be a success for Google, and I'm sure plenty of you are already excited for what the company will have to show off in 2018.

Why would Google's CEO go on an earnings call and lie about something like that? 1) the SEC wouldn't take kindly to false statements to investors, and 2) if they didn't have the data to back it up they would just say something generic like "Pixel 2 sales are great" or "Pixel 2 sales are stronger than expected."

Not surprising. Anyone who was stuck waiting for the original Pixel to be in stock jumped to order theirs on day one. In addition to the people who always order on day one. Last year I ordered one phone, this year I ordered two, because it took almost 6 months to get my husband's phone ordered last year (actually it was almost the middle of this year before I managed to place the order). As it is there is a difference of a month between delivery dates, and the one I have on order is currently out of stock. With any luck, the phones will be back in stock sooner than 6 months from now, but I wasn't about to wait and find out.

makes sense that since google substantially increased the places you could buy the phone that the sales numbers would increase also. for year to year accurate numbers they would have to count only those outlets that were selling in year one. also, those numbers are for pre=orders not actual sales.

makes sense that since google substantially increased the places you could buy the phone that the pre-order numbers would increase also. for year to year accurate numbers they would have to count only those outlets that were selling in year one. also, those numbers are for pre-orders not actual sales.

Double pre-orders on day one. Before everyone started realizing the phone had a second rate screen and clicked like a crazed cricket. I wonder did returns double too? I'd say so. This device will be almost as big a flop as Essential phone, They only sold 2-2.5 million of the first Pixel and that wasn't faulty, these devices won't even reach that figure. I'm very very disappointed in Google. After the last years pretty mediocre offering I was expecting a real feature filled flagship this year but we got bargain basement quality with an up to $950 price tag. Maybe next year they'll get it right, but I said that last year too. Google should stay with software, they don't have the manufacturing knowledge to compete with Samsung and Apple, and using two loss makers like LG and HTC to make their phones was never a good idea.

Btw, double last years pre-orders isn't saying much. As they sold less than 3 million phones in total of the last one, what was the pre-order figure? Maybe 10%, or about 300,000 phones, now double might be 600,000 or less, as they didn't say double what figure. The double of 10 is just 20. Plus at least half are returned, and those thinking of buying won't now as if they have half a brain, they know better to get something else.